In the early 1970's, the "change-agents," as they call themselves,
came to dominate our public education system. After almost a century of
planning, they have "changed" our American school system into
an increasingly top-down, command oriented, Prussian style model. They
have sought to create "human resources" rather than free thinking
and functioning individuals.

They have attempted to "mold," to borrow their word, young
people into better functionaries of the corporate state. While by conventional
terminology, the change-agents are considered to be left-wing, the term
right-wing would be more literally applicable as they peruse a type of
eugenic, National Socialist agenda.

Academic subjects such as math, science, and history have been deliberately
hollowed out of their content. These, and most other disciplines, have
been replaced with meaningless, mind-numbing psychobabble. Dumbed down
methods such as whole language, new math, guessing, and others, are meant
to cripple the minds of our young people. These methods create the mental
dissonance required to stanch the development of cognitive thinking. Traditional
values have been undermined with sex education, values clarification,
"remediation," new age, and more psychobabble. A moral, independent
thinking person threatens the goal of the change-agent which is the replacement
of the moral authority of the family with that of the state. From their
twisted perspective, today's education system is a smashing success!

One of the founding change-agent bibles, "Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives," by University of Chicago Professor Benjamin Bloom, lays
out the strategy for how the state, acting through the public schools,
would, eventually, control the minds and behavior of it's citizens. Bloom
saw education as "a tool to classify the ways individuals are to
act, think, or feel as the result of some unit of instruction". Improper
attitudes, brought in from home, would be "remediated." What
Bloom meant by "improper attitudes" should be obvious.

By 1971, according to "The Underground History of American Education"
by New York City Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto, the U.S. Office
of Education was deeply committed to Bloom's agenda of accessing and manipulating
the private lives and thoughts of children. That year, the Office of Education
contracted the RAND Corporation to produce "change-agent" studies
which would serve as training manuals for teachers.

Federal funding was granted under the "Education Professions Development
Act" and the volume "Change-Agents Guide to Innovation in Education"
would play a central role in this education "transformation."
Soon after, teacher training programs were established, and more RAND
change-agent volumes were produced. Our tax dollars were being spent to
destroy the structure and fabric of our society, not to mention our children's
lives.

In 1973, Catherine Barrett, president of the National Education Association,
the monopolistic teachers union, said "Dramatic changes in the way
we raise our children are indicated, particularly in terms of schooling...
we will be agents of change." Parents still harbor the quaint idea
that they, as sovereign citizens of a free democracy, decide how to raise
their own children. What these "dramatic changes" would be is
becoming increasingly obvious. The NEA is the largest and most powerful
union in the US.

In 1989, a senior director of the Mid-Continent Regional Educational
Laboratory, no doubt an incubator for change-agents, funded by the taxpayer,
addressed all 50 American Governors attending a conference on education.
He stated that "What we're into is total restructuring of society."
Not a single Governor, Democrat or Republican, raised his hand to ask
what was meant by "restructuring." There is no record of a single
governor registering an objection. Since the establishment of the Department
of Education in 1977, States have surrendered, at breakneck speed, control
over public education, transferring that control to the Federal government.

Government school advocate Gerald Bracey, in a revealing essay, succinctly
summed up the change-agent agenda. He claimed that, realistically, "we
must continue to produce an uneducated social class." Government,
by nature, seeks power for it's own sake. This requires a docile, semi-literate
populace focused on external stimulants such as entertainment and controlled
substances. This is why, clearly, government must be driven out of education.